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You can listen to the podcast, if you want.

It's called operation Mincemeat

https://pca.st/podcast/0d412ec0-af39-0139-c19f-0acc26574db2

that's... not what gp was talking about. Why are so many people jumping in with this mistake?

Operation mincemeat wasn't a german officer, it wasn't anything about using a known plaintext to compare to coded messages, it wasn't pretending to be german documents, and it wasn't to help with cryptanalysis. About the only similarity is a dead body

You're right. The while planting messages on bodies is what put me on the wrong track.

Now also a quite good West End musical

Couldn't enjoy it at all. One of the first scenes shows MI6 officers, during WWII, making plans on a post-1991 world map, with reunified Germany and independent Baltic countries, etc. Kills immersion for me immediately, along with the gender politics every few minutes in a history show. Maybe I'm old fashioned.

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